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No. 273,546. Patented May. 6,1883.

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GUSTAV L. JAEGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LEAD OR CRAYON HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,546, dated March e,1883. Application filed November 18, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAV L. JAEGER, acitizen of the United States, residing at- New York, in the county andState of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lead orCrayon Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the means for re raining in position in thelead-receptacle of the handle the movable lead or crayon; and itconsistsin a rotating friction-wheel arranged in the recess in the sideof the handle, near its lower end or tip, to impinge against the leadcontained in the receptacle,-so that motion may be imparted to thefriction-wheel by the finger and the lead either ejected or retracted'by that means, while, when the wheel is at rest, it prevents endwisemovement of the lead.

It also consists in aspring carrying the friction-wheel, whereby thewheel is caused to exert an elastic pressure on the lead.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigures 1, 2, and 3 represent side views. Fig. 4 is a similar View,looking in an opposite direction to said figures and partly in section.Figs. 5, 6,

show modifications.

Similar letters indicate corresponding-parts. The letter A designatesthe handle, having a bore or tube in the center, forming theleadreceptacle 0, and having a recess, 8, near the lower end or tip,containing the friction-wheel O. In the example shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3,and 4, the axis of the wheel 0 is at a right angle or oblique angletothe lead-receptacle 0, and the wheel is serrated or roughened in orderto more efficiently act on the lead or crayon to adjust the same.

spring is to force the wheel against the lead.

or crayon.

As shown in Fig. 5, the wheel-support is composed of a pin arrangedparallel to the lead or crayon receptacle, and havingits ends arrangedin openings in the handle, the pin being fixed and the wheel adapted torotate thereon. v

As shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the support for the wheel is composed of'apin arranged in an opening in the handle at right angles to thelead-receptacle.

In the example shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, the friction-wheel isprovided with a screwthread or scroll, t, which operates on the lead 'orcrayon to adjust it.

The wheel 0 can be readily turned by the finger, due to the position ofthe recess .9, and when it is turned in one or the other direction thelead contained in the receptacle 0 is ejected or retracted, as the casemay be, by the frictional contact therewith of the periphery of thewheel, while in like manner the lead is firmly held against endwisemovement when the wheel is at rest. By the spring'D'the wheel is adaptedto yield to the lead, and the advantage thereby gained is, that the leadmay be brought to an inner or retracted position by bringing it incontact with a hard surface and forcing the handle down upon it.

It will be seen that the devices herein described are simple inconstruction, thus allowing the pencil to be manufactured at low cost,and are not liable to get out of order.

If desired, the wheel shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 may be provided withend notches, c,

Fig. 2, to engage the side of the spring forlocking the wheel.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, substantially as hereinbelore described, with thehandle having the central lead-receptacle and the recess near the lowerend or tip, of the rotating frictionwheel arranged in said recess to acton the lead contained in the receptacle, and a support connected withthe handle, on which the said wheel is mounted, for the purposespecified.

2. The combination, substantially as herein set forth, with the handlehaving the cen- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set trallead-receptacle and the recess near the my hand and seal in the presenceof two sublower end or tip. of the rotating friction-wheel scribingwitnesses.

arranged in said recess to acton the lead GUSTAV L. JAEGER. [L. 8.] 5contained in the receptacle, and the attached Witnesses:

spring, carrying said wheel, for the purpose CHAS. WAHLERS,

specified. E. F. KASTENHUBER.

